BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 On April 30th, 2026, Bakersfield Police Department Chief Greg Terry broadcast his final radio call as he officially retires.<\/p>\n
Chief Greg Terry began his law enforcement career in his hometown of Lafayette, Louisiana. He was hired by the Lafayette Police Department in 1990 and worked a variety of assignments, including Patrol, FTO, SWAT, and was a detective in the Robbery\/Homicide unit.<\/p>\n
He was hired by the Bakersfield Police Department in 1997.<\/p>\n
Chief Terry has worked in a variety of line-level and supervisory positions in BPD since that time, including Patrol, the Special Enforcement Unit, Investigations, Public Information Office, and Internal Affairs. Chief Terry promoted to the position of Assistant Chief of Police in 2017, overseeing the Operations, Investigations, and Support Services Divisions. He became chief in 2020.<\/p>\n
The broadcast call ended, \u201cCongratulations, Chief, you will be missed.\u201d<\/p>\n
From Eyewitness News, congratulations!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 On April 30th, 2026, Bakersfield Police Department Chief Greg Terry broadcast his final radio…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-293844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}